Google Maps

By Google, Inc.

Description

Google Maps makes navigating your world faster and easier. Find the best places in town and the information you need to get there.

Get there faster with real-time updates• Beat traffic with real-time ETAs and traffic conditions• Catch your bus, train, or ride-share with real-time transit info• Save time with automatic re-routing based on live traffic, incidents, and road closures• Don't miss a turn or exit with lane guidance• Find pit stops along your route like gas stations and coffee spots

Discover places and explore like a local• Find top-rated restaurants and local businesses, wherever you are• Decide on the best places to go with reviews, ratings, and pictures of foods and interiors• Plan your visit and see menus, make reservations, and find when places are typically busiest• Help others discover the best places by sharing reviews, photos and more• Save places you want to or often visit, and quickly find them later from any computer or device

Experience the Google Maps difference• Offline maps to search and navigate without an internet connection• Street View and indoor imagery for restaurants, shops, museums and more• Indoor maps to quickly find your way inside big places like airports, malls and stadiums• Comprehensive, accurate maps in 220 countries and territories• Transit schedules and maps for over 15,000 cities• Detailed business information on over 100 million places

* Some features not available in all countries**Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

What's New in Version 4.36.1

Thanks for using Google Maps! This release brings the “Measure distance” feature that lets you measure distances between pins dropped on the map (hold a point on the map to drop a pin). In addition we bring bug fixes that improve our product to help you discover new places and navigate to them.

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Customer Reviews

Latest update removed traffic on by default

by
Handles08

If you use this app for traffic DO NOT UPDATE. Traffic previously was on by default, that is no longer the case, and there is no way to change it. Every time you want to check the traffic, you have to go into the layers and now turn traffic back on. Close the app, and then come back in, guess what, traffic is gone again! After about the 3rd time of, "why is there traffic, my app said there was no traffic?!" Oh... pos turned turned traffic off with the update. Rip. App is usually 5 stars. Latest update made it infuriating. Fix traffic on by default, or let us manually turn traffic on and leave it on, and you'll go back to 5 stars.

Thanks for the reply. Back to 5 stars.

Fix traffic problem

by
STL cubs fan

Update: After my poor review comprising about the traffic toggling off all the time, the developers fixed this feature and replied to my review. Google maps is better again, and I appreciate the quick developer response. I use the app every day to plan my commute and am happy that it works great again!

Original Review: I agree with other reviewers. It used to be that once turned on, traffic showed up every time you started the app. Now you have to turn it on each time. Very frustrating! I may switch to a different map app if this is not fixed soon. I rely on the traffic maps to plan my commute, and toggling traffic on is difficult in the car.

EDITED- No more traffic default?!? WHY???

by
infamousree

Edit: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for bringing the default traffic layer back!!!! 5 stars again 🙌🏼 I love you. Seriously.

***************I've been a loyal Google Maps user for years. It's the best map for traffic out there, until recently. With whatever update, you guys removed the default to traffic option. We now have to toggle traffic on each time we open the app 😖 Since I'd think most people use your app FOR ACTUAL TRAFFIC when commuting or directions...this change is a huge misstep. It's one thing to take it away, then have an option to turn it on in settings...but that's not even there. Please change it back or give us an option. Thank you!